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Popular Projects

There are a number of very popular projects already available and stably usable today. For a more complete list, please visit my WIKI site at http://www.nantz.org/SushiWiki/wiki.aspx. Also I have created an Open Source Downloader Tool, using NAnt of course, which is available from my Web log at http://www.nantz.org/dasBlog/default.aspx?date=2004-02-18. This tool uses the <get> and <cvs> tasks from NAnt to get the latest source from dozens of Open Source projects! Many of the projects come from the following Web sites:

• www.sourceforge.net

• forge.novell.com

• http://go-mono.com/ports

These sites require that the projects be Open Source (as defined by the Open Source Initiative approved licenses). The Novell site has a very interesting LDAP project that works with ActiveDirectory and OpenLDAP. The Mono ports site is maintained by Jackson Harper and contains key projects that are not cross-platform yet but that are strategically targeted by the Mono project. A number of other sites can be useful, but they are not always Open Source, and therefore specific permission must be granted by the authors:

• www.gotdotnet.com workspaces and examples

• www.codeproject.com

• staff.develop.com/woodring and other Developmentor guys

These sites provide a majority of the projects out there. Some additional projects of interest are listed in Table 12.1.

Table 12.1. Key Open Source Projects

These projects are very useful because they either address a hole in the .NET framework that Microsoft has not been able to fill yet or an area that Microsoft may never go to in its implementation.